Language A: Language and Literature Internal Assessment Student Outline Form
Field of Inquiry: Politics, Power, and Justice Global Issue: Institutional Exploitation of Social Propaganda
Texts chosen
Extracts
Literary work: Born a Crime
Non-literary text: The Social Dilemma
Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points):
● Evidence of colonial propaganda which perpetuate anti-Blackness and suppress education which
is an intellectual exploitation and oppression on society.
○ Contextualize with Irony (missionaries) + parallelism “a knowledgeable man is a free
man, or at least a man who longs for freedom” + foreshadow detriment
○ Objective denotation (“cripple black mind”) + serious tone/diction + sarcastic aporia
(“why educate slave?”)/ ethos + broader tribalism
○ “our parents and grandparents were taught the way you’d teach a pre-schooler” applies
the negative long-term association to the harm of racist propaganda. + la la la auditory
imagery: semantics apply to broader concern of generations
○ Tautology gov institution contrast + providing the natives “something to aspire to” also
supports pathos to provide perspective (exploit more)
● However, educational suppression is not the only form of institutional social power. In the social
dilemma, social division from institutions or corporations controlling sociocultural and political
distractions allows for economic exploitation. The AI personifies propaganda of the capitalistic
profit motive.
○ Sandy parakilas no control + roger fight + playing game + strat + threat not ally, us vs
them fb vs norm
○ Personified “My analysis shows that going political with Extreme Center content has a
62.3 percent chance of long-term engagement” - make money quote/ Hypophora reply
no. visual red vs blue (political pol. Distract then personal gain), .
○ Logos pers but robotic tone revert appeal and disconnects + neg assoc. + All these factors
combine to create a sense of discomfort for the audience to recognize the impact of
propaganda techniques.
● unjust institutional powers in the government and corporations + org exp. + expl gain prop no
push